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To try to mitigate some of these concerns, the council has reduced the size of the plan, promised to retain all the trees near the site and removed balconies from some of the apartments.

It has also pledged to plant more trees around the site.

If the plans are approved, the existing community centre would be replaced by a new three-storey building.

The apartments would include seven one bedroom homes and 14 two bedroom homes.

The plan has still prompted some objection, with one person writing: "I don't understand why this area is of so much interest when we have much bigger empty spaces around that could be built on without taking away the small amount of space used by a community."

Another person said: "The traffic will become ridiculous and some of our neighbours have big vehicles and will not be able to access their driveways with the other vehicles that will be coming here for the flats if they was to be built.